Tag Archives: Bach

I originally wrote and published this item a few years ago. In upgrading my website, it vanished. Here it is again. Glenn Gould would be 84, if he had not died in 1982 at the age of 50. We all … Continue reading →

My first musical experience was undoubtedly my mother singing to me. At the age of 68, on the ferry to the Isle of Skye, I found myself singing words and music I had never consciously learned. I put that down … Continue reading →

In the bookends of his career, the first and last versions of Gould’s Goldberg Variations, Gould gave us a fresh insight into Bach’s music that is brilliant, analytic, intellectual. But in the end, Gould’s humming is the only live, human element. Continue reading →